We don't even have bins as such actually, we just dash all our bin bags out on the street the day before the binmen come. We usually have about 2-3 bags, but our scummy neighbours always have about 10, all of them open and often with shit that shouldn't even be included like high chairs and such like. I can only imagine that when we do get wheely bins in the next year or so they'll be wanting to fill up mine, and they too will be in line for the tutting of a lifetime if they try it.

Neighbour in my old place used to do this too. Our bins get emptied fortnightly so we obviously filled it each time, then they moved in.

I just started taking their bags out, only if I needed the space though as it was fine if we had spare, stopped rats etc. Eventually they knocked on my door and complained about me removing their bags. The cheek of them.

After a fortnight of removing their bags and leaving it on their doorstep they stopped. But childish but it worked.

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I don't understand the issue with not collecting overflowing wheely bins. I mean, what are you supposed to do, store your rotten old rubbish until it's all decomposed? I don't have a car so I can't drive to the tip, so what would my options be, short of putting it all in my neighbour's bin and potentially igniting another world war?

Why don't you guys just keep your wheelie bins inside like everyone else? If it's in the corner of the lounge, it's out of the way, no one can get to it, and it's much easier throwing away your left overs when you've finished dinner.

I live in a large, ground floor flat. There are two above me, and no basement flat. The couple that used to live above me seemed really quiet, hardly ever heard a peep from them. But late last year they moved out and a different couple moved in, with a five year old in tow.

Every day I can now hear his screams and his thundering across the floor like a herd of elephants. It's doing my nut in. Obviously the twist in the tale is that I have two kids of my own, both younger than theirs. My eldest is very quiet but the younger one is prone to the odd meltdown.

As a result of this, I feel the both of us just have an uneasy truce. You know, when there is no clear choice, do nothing. However one day something will start a conflict over it. Maybe I will snap and go up there to kick off, or maybe they'll put some old trainers in my bin.

I remember when I lived in the fascist Wheelie bin dictatorship of Lewisham I would have to go down the road to a block of flats that had big communal dumpsters and put my rubbish there. So if you have something like that nearby, get rid of your excess bags there.

Now I live in a wheely bin-free zone, just stick bags out by our garages and get rid of as much as you like.

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In parts of the New Town in Edinburgh, people don't want to spoil the look of the old buildings by having wheelie bins so they still just put black bags out every other week. Which means every other week the seagulls descend from the heavens, and woe betide anyone who attempts to navigate those streets.

I used to be fine with my neigbours but recently a buzzer - and I do mean what sounds like an old-timey game show style buzzer - goes off intermittently all throughout the day in one of the apartments next door.

I do mean as in several times per hour; sometimes it buzzes only once, sometimes twice, sometimes a couple of times and sometimes it sounds like a wake up call. It's not particularly loud but unfortunately I can hear it fairly well from my bedroom.

It mostly drives me crazy wondering what the hell is making that sound in the first place. Is this a feature of some electrical apparatus I'm unaware of or what?

Hmm... A buzzing sound, you say? Like a noise that buzzes like the buzzers in gameshows? I seem to recall a PS2 quiz game that had buzzer peripherals that buzzed like the buzzers in gameshows. Perhaps they're playing that game that came with buzzing buzzer peripherals? If only I could remember what it was called...